This project is officially discontinued. Only kept for the record.

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K Menu with Gnome folder and extra icons for KDE 3.2 or later.

If you install both KDE and Gnome then K Menu will become a mess with overpopulated submenus. Some distributions try to solve this by hiding many Gnome apps in KDE and most KDE apps in Gnome. I do not like that. I want to access Gnome apps in KDE and KDE apps in Gnome. So this is my attempt to both maintain desktop interoperability and unmess the menus.

Why should one install both KDE and Gnome at all? You might be sharing your machine with somebody who prefers the other desktop, or you might be a desktop junky like I am.

Menu Structure

KDE apps are left where they are. GNOME apps are moved into Gnome. Applications that require neither KDE, nor GNOME are moved into $CATEGORY/More.

Known Issues

K Menu Gnome only works as expected with an unmodified K Menu. If you have already edited your menu with KMenuEdit or added Windows applications to the menu with Wine/Crossover/Cedega then you should only install K Menu Gnome if you know how to handle menu customization conflicts. Per-user menu customizations are stored in ~/.config/menus.

Disclaimer

K Menu Gnome is not compatible with the menus of heavily customized distributions such as SUSE, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, or UHU-Linux.

I am no longer a desktop junky so this is the last release of K Menu Gnome. It was fun while it lasted.

Release 0.7 does in Debian, Kubuntu & Fedora.

Re: Re: KDE4

I have using it without any problems about month, but after upgrading to KDE 4.0.1 i get broken menu (no icons or icon with question). Where is problem and how to fix it (kmenu edit doesn't work with kde4 well).

Yes, there is. Click on the Gnome Menu Extended link above.

Broken KDE4 menu icons

Once installed I have broken icons in my KDE4 menu.
How can I restore old menu?
I've tried to uninstall the package but doesn't work...
I've also tried to remove the menu and add it again to the panel and to rm -rf ~/.kde4

I'd like to know if it is supposed to work also with gentoo.

Re: Gentoo

It should but you will need to do it manually:

1. Find the xdg/menus directory used by KDE. When I last used Gentoo, it was in /usr/kde/3.5/etc/xdg/menus but now it may be elsewhere.

2. See if KDE's xdg/menus directory has an applications-merged subdirectory and copy the kmenu-gnome.menu file from the kmenu-gnome-1.0.0/xdg folder into it. If there is no such subdirectory there then create it. (Some distributors use kde-applications-merged or kde4-applications-merged instead of plain applications-merged.)

3. Copy the *.directory files from kmenu-gnome-1.0.0/desktop-directories into KDE's desktop-directories folder. When I last used Gentoo, it was in /usr/kde/3.5/share/desktop-directories but now it may be elsewhere.

4. If you are using KDE3 then copy all the icons into KDE3's icons directory. If you are using KDE4 then you only need to copy the hicolor icons.

5. Copy the kmenu-gnome subdirectory (only the subdirectory, not the whole kmenu-gnome-1.0.0 directory) into /usr/share.

KDE4 may be slow to update the menu. Restart X or reboot the computer to speed it up.

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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